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A 'slop bucket' in every kitchen

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TheDullWitch · 24/05/2007 16:33

Government wants us to collect food scraps in special bins and then the swill will be taken away to create fuel.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1813805.ece

Which is all very well and green. But EEEW! Does anyone's council already do this? Is it stinky?

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Tech · 24/05/2007 17:22

Second that on junk mail, JoolsToo. The other thing that does my head in is they all use those window envelopes that you can't put in the "paper" recycling thing. So I end up spending time every week or so ripping up junk mail envelopes, then putting the main bit in the paper bin and the front plastic thing in the "non-recyclable" bin. It does my head in. Then everyone bangs on about identity theft so much that you have to make a third pile of stuff to shred.

Round here, Islington Council left some weird new brown boxes / buckets in our street last week. I think they were for slop. I didn't take one in. Actually they were gone when I got back home. I haven't got room for one anyway - they were massive and I'm in a small flat.

And I don't like the thought of having a large bucket of rotting food sitting in the kitchen stinking for a week at a time. And then having to lug it up and down three flights of stairs to the street on bin day when it's at its smelliest. And what if you forget and have to wait another week. Then washing it out. Bleuch. I reckon they'll end up full of maggots.

Chunter chunter moan moan.

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Tech · 24/05/2007 17:28

Is bleach enviro damaging? I thought it basically turns into brine/salt once it's done oxidising. I'd imagine it's much less damaging than detergent......

Active ingredient is sodium hypochlorite (NaClO), which is basically like common salt plus oxygen. Bleach is reactive cos that oxygen is readily lost to leave just NaCl or salt... what harm could that do?

Don't tell me we have to feel bad about using bleach now. Bleach is my answer to pretty much any household job....

I think the UK has sunk into some weird "everything you do is wrong" mantra over the last couple of years. I think there's a fairly real danger people are going to start thinking "Sod it" and not doing anything. One ends up feeling so scolded about everything.....

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